One Million Tiny Things

Benefits of Homework

Dear Ms. Becker,

I'm Flora, from your AP English class. I know you don't know me, a lot of people don't. Honestly, I'm over being invisible to everyone. But what I'm not over is getting a B in English.

Like please, if there was a goddess of English, I'd be her. Okay, maybe Jane Austen could get it, but I'd be a close second. And being, such a talented person, I can't believe you'd give me a B. I don't get those things after As. Check my record in the school system, I am a perfect straight A student. Straight As!

To be truthful, you should have expected my essay when you asked us to write a 500 word essay on the benefits of homework. I believe that starting my essay with "I strongly believe, that homework pays no contribution to the world we live in today except for increasing student suicide rates and thereby decreasing overpopulation" is a very accurate statement and not something that should be crossed off as irrelevant.

That is a benefit of homework right in the introduction. A point that I believe could have been considered.

Moreover, you have cut off many more other sentences that also present the various advantages af assigning homework. I'll quote a few of them.

"Homework has played an important role in convincing many scholars to drop their education as much too stressful. This leaves more spaces for talented students in universities and later employment."

"Almost without meaning to,homework, leads children to learn to lengthen their workdays. They begin consuming cups of caffeine and even, in rather extreme cases, other drugs just to stay up past midnight. This has not only aided sales in the caffeinated drink department but is also providing a motivated young generation who can work much longer hours"

"But, homework isn't just helping humans. Lately, there has been a daunting decrease in stray dogs as more dogs get adopted just for students to not lie when they say their dog ate their homework"

"The contrast between the popular crowd and the less popular crowd is slowly decreasing as they become better acquainted just for the latter to do their homework"

I think that these were all excellent points and not at all off topic. I found your corrections of my essay being "not to the point" and "not consisting enough proper points" extremely offending.

After a thorough Internet search, scanning page after page of books in the library and over five cups of caffeine (proving my earlier point) , I wrote exactly 500 words on the numerous advantages homework provides not only to pupils but to society as a whole. I hope that you could reconsider my essay and lift my grade a little.

P.S. whatever Ms. Dunby says, I did not refer to you as an "old bat who'd gone loony in the head" in the cafeteria. She's trying to set you up against your angelic students. Don't believe her Ms. Becker.

Sending you some brownies soon,
Flora